Sounds like the bearings are on their way out: if its a sealed unit you will have no option but to replace it. Despite the rantings on the other thread, I heard some good things about the superstar components isis bottom bracket, otherwise just have a trawl through the reviews on chain reaction ^^.

yes.

If you really want self extracting bolts i would go for middleburn's as they are a bit tougher: my 'budget' alloy ones bent outwards removing the cranks. 🙁

I use vans.

Alternatively, buy your wah-wahs from superstar components
for £20-25 less (spot the difference!) and spend the difference on some nicer shoes!

Nice to see this is not the only forum that descends into dog-kicking/zoo-fighting/d-lock-swinging keyboard vigilantism!

That's more like it Hora.

I'm loving the super-mellow 'alternative' version of Hora on Pistonheads that manages not to get dragged in or suggest ludicrous ideas in heated debates.

OP. I think you are starting to get wound up. Please calm down and put things in perspective.

Spread the love, fella! 😀

Cove Hustler is a little bit heavier but pretty capable with 6" of fork on the front.

Drac – Member

Whey Aye!

I have a couple of Geordie colleagues (in Devon, mind). Is it a coincidence that they are 2 of the most straight-talking and amusingly errr, 'honest' people I know?

100mm but it would depend on the frame/head angle, shirley?

-Blandford Fly.
-that warbly not-quite-clucking noise hens make to each other.
-the Geordie accent.
-that smell when its been hot and then it rains on the pavement.
-Hot Wheels toys 😳

he used to sell them moisturising lubricant because most of the inmates spent all day masturbating – now they were having fun, but it didn't make it right.

…and so where do you fit in this analogy then KT? Please don't sell him any more lube, think of the casual internet browsers who looked in on a promising thread about bargain carbon frames! 😯 and 😆

Much hilarious PWNing ensued.

I've had a tootle through this thread, but if someone could point me to the hilarious bits i'd be most grateful. As daft as all this is, I rather get the impression that JV is having slightly more fun then the rest of you. 😕

…and if you are racing, tape this to your seatpost and if you can't fix it with that then start getting spanners out… In my experience a bolt-up axle is only a tiny bit more faff than the chain tug you must already have on the drive side, so puncturing in a race is always going to be bit of a mare!

what the disadvantages of excessive empathy might be ?

😆 I don't think anyone that posts on here would be able to imagine having excessive empathy. Of course I include myself in that comment.

A chain tug on non drive side will do nothing to stop this: its the leverage of the brake pushing the axle backwards not forwards, which is all the chain tug will pull against. (try looseing the qr a smidge and you will see this start to happen if you just rock the bike back and forth).

This is why slotty dropout on-ones have disc mount inside the rear triangle (there is some blurb somewhere on the website about this), some frames have the whole dropouts slide forward and a vertical dropout within this assembly, and some have eccentric bottom brackets and normal dropouts. Was never really an issue before disc brakes hence horizontal dropouts being the norm for old mtb's, and all bmx/track/fixes etc.

Only solution for this arrangment (ie horizontal dropouts and disc tabs on seat stay) is to do rear axle up much tighter. I had a jump/fun bike (commencal maxmax) -it was fine with a nutted axle done up nice and tight and I was always on the brakes on it. 😳

going on what you said then, the 456 with an adjustable fork would suit, wind it down for the climbs then out for the fun..

fatmutha here..
i had a prince albert once and didnt get on with it…sold it after one ride it felt so awful.

been thinking on it and the scandal is coming out on tops at the moment for sheer value, i could possibly put more blingy stuff on it then to lighten it up further.

fatmutha here on jules login.

i have the 456 and slot drop inbred.
both i find a little steep at 100mm tips me too much forward and hurts my wrists, so i have 456 around 140mm most of the time, and the inbred around 125mm this (for me) feels the best.
am deciding whether to buy a scandal at the moment and have some 100mm forks put aside for it and am already wondering if i will probably want 120mm on it..!!
if it were me i'd plump for either as i havent felt much difference in the way i ride the either, the inbred feels just as nice in the air as the 456…horses for courses try before you buy if you can, but either are very capable fun bikes.
hth

I'd like to repeal whatever the last parliamentry reform act was (1832? or 1867?) and replace it with a house of commons elected by PR. Its not like first past the post got us a united and consistent government this time did it!

*runs for cover*

My forks are blackbox, and non-remote, so does that mean that they won't have the spring in there so I can't fit her remote to mine?

basically yes: if there's no return spring in there in the first place you won't get one in to pull 'against' a bar mouted lever.

I've ridden 22+36+bash (with e13 drs) on a mate's bike and it shifts just fine. Not a bad spread of gears either. Hone cranks, bb mount DRS chain device and high band xt front mech if that's any help: not sure if an e-type mech would clear a 36 tooth ring in the middle position though.

The bike i commute to work on is an old now-rigid mountain bike with slicks, full guards and a rack. I also ride it for fun if we aren't going anywhere too muddy or bumpy, but mostly fun rides for me are on proper dirt with proper tyres and at least a bouncy fork.

OMG, 'happy birthday' to Michael Eavis on stage! This just goes from awesome to even awesomer!! Is that why they (Eavises) booked him for sunday?

+1 for Blandford Fly, itsh luuuuuuurvley. Hic.

where's the off button ?

bah, you goths have no love of the cheese at all do you? 😆

Sadly the vocoder 'solo' was missing from it tonight. 😆

top login name, vim!

😀

Did I really see him writhing on the floor playing and extended 'keytar' solo?!

He even played 'I just called to say I love you'!

Legend!!

ginger flavoured ale?! Yeah!!!

Almax either have the best advertising spiel/videos/etc, or they really are that good.

Hopefully you've already started with a really cheap dull/ratty looking 80's road bike with to go with whatever you lock it with, and tapping some local knowledge about where not to lock it up! Hopefully less likely to be a target, and less heartache and wallet-ache if/when it does vanish.

travellingman – Member

Come on, SFA are far better than just OK!

If you were a real furries fan you would've spotted the joke in kevevs' post. 😉

I bloody love the Pet Shop Boys! 😳

bunny hop, trackstand comps and lake jump at Big Bike Bash last year.

Sort of knocks Florence 'guesting' with Dizzee 'into a cocked hat' as you eeenglesh folk say.

I had this once with an e-type front mech 'ring' on a 73mm shell (so no spacers) but it took aaaaages to work out where the creak was coming from. If the bike was at all wet it didn't do it (which was what got me on to it) and yours has probably become more noticeable in these unseasonal and unknown trail conditions known as 'dusty'. Just try dribbling some light chain lube between frame, bb and each spacer every so often. That cured mine.

All the coil ones are u-turn as well: doesn't really make the fork that much heavier or complicated to look after than a normal fixed travel coil in my experience (I've had 2 coil ones). Only other thbing is the springs often seem to come up quite soft compared to other rockshox forks, and there is no 'proper' way to preload the coil if it is too soft : some folk use the compression damping and some fit harder springs.

They are all quite good if a bit heavy with a coil in, i suppose if you are fussy then the 317 (only available as oem or part of whole bike) is the one to avoid as the damping is not so good. Motion control damping on all the others, and if it has had a 'push' upgrade it is allegedly better on the same way that black box is better than older motion control damping. Never tried a 'pushed' fork though. The differences in the others seem to be about the steerer/crown and whether the floodgate on the motion control is internally or externally adjustable. (The internally adjustable one is still a doddle to adjust and thats if you ever actually use it!)

HTH 🙂

on a rare trip in town round 10am i saw someone i knew in the queue about twenty people away from the door of the o2 shop. Walking back that way about 45 minutes later i saw her again, still about 20 people away from the door. 😐

btw, my phone looks like this:

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68mm bb shell, and as above if they are isis or square taper cranks it depends on the crank arms (try googling the model).

Santa Maradona priez pour nous! 😀

George,
1) early shift finishes at 3-3.30 round here.
2) locally our infection control peeps prohibit us from wearing uniform in shops (food in particular) both because of the risk of infection from those of us who do work in 'yuck' places' and because the public are 'semi-informed' and will jump to the conclusion that we are spreading germs etc and be disillusioned about this.

So someone in a sister's uniform really might know better re: their own risk to the public doing shopping in uniform after work than the meddling nan who spots her, but unfortunately risks generating bad PR and silly letters to local paper. Should know better basically. We get a bad anough press round here as it is. As above, this is local infection control team's opinion too not just mine.

HTH